World
The Francis effect
Pope Francis was a man of remarkable complexity who cultivated an image of utmost simplicity. He began the moment he…
World leaders pay tribute to Pope Francis
Pope Francis has died aged 88. At 7.35 a.m., the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had ‘returned to the house…
Francis and the Vatican reckoning
Modern popes, for better or for worse, tend to be defined in soundbites. John Paul II’s clarion call of ‘Be…
Let the prisoners cook
After Hashem Abedi allegedly attacked three prison officers with hot cooking oil at HMP Frankland last weekend, there has been…
Keir Starmer’s Easter message wasn’t offensive
Fun though it is to bash Keir Starmer for everything he says or does, there’s surely a point at which…
BBC Bitesize’s communism blindspot
A great exhortation of our times is the need to ‘be kind’. It manifests itself among those who cry ‘refugees…
The plight of Bethlehem
War seldom has true victors – and for Bethlehem, where tourism once accounted for approximately 70 per cent of income,…
It’s not too late to save Oxford Street
Oxford Street – the busiest shopping street in Europe, in a nation once known as an island of shopkeepers –…
The trans-rights movement’s howl of male rage
They defaced the statue of Millicent Fawcett. That’s all you need to know about yesterday’s march for ‘trans rights’. Someone…
Labour MPs rage against trans ruling fall-out
Happy Easter Sunday to LGBT+ Labour. Today’s Mail on Sunday splashes on leaked messages from a WhatsApp chat of MPs…
Ed Miliband is talking nonsense about energy prices – again
I guess I must be one of Ed Miliband’s ‘siren voices’. Writing in the Observer today, the Energy and Climate…
Douglas Murray has been blacklisted in Berlin
As a British writer living in Berlin, I recently attempted something that now passes for quietly provocative: I tried to…
The IMF is right: we should be retiring at 70
The IMF is onto something – a sentence I’ve never uttered before. But that august institution says today’s 70-year-olds not…
The US-Iran nuclear talks are doomed to fail
US and Iranian diplomats are meeting in Rome this weekend for further talks on Iran’s nuclear programme, in what looks…
Putin’s Russia is part of a global Orthodox revival
Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch, was found hanged in his Sunningdale home in March 2013. Born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents,…
RC vs CofE: which church should a young Christian join?
There has been discussion over the past few weeks that Britain’s young people are undergoing a religious revival. This Easter…
In defence of cultural Christianity
Christian culture is under fresh attack. Those striving to preserve old Christian institutions, to maintain the Bible and Church traditions…
The ancient depictions of Easter in England’s churches
Easter is the most important festival of the Christian calendar, and so it is unsuprising that most of England’s Pre-Reformation…
Why we should believe that Jesus rose from the dead
Christian interpretations of Easter can sound notoriously subjective to sceptics. Consider the following claims made by a distinguished preacher I…
What could France possibly teach America about free speech?
Nearly 300 academics have contacted a French university after it declared itself a safe space for those looking to flee…
Easter means hope in South Africa
For urban South Africans – now 70 per cent of the country’s population – there’s much to celebrate this Easter…
The plight of the Midwest Protestant church
One icy day in January, the 130-year-old First Methodist Church in Princeton, Indiana, burned to the ground after years of…
Why Putin wants a truce
At 4 p.m. UK time today, Russian troops were instructed to temporarily lay down their weapons in Ukraine. The order,…
Inside Russia’s repression of Ukraine’s churches
Vladimir Putin celebrated Palm Sunday by murdering over 30 civilians in Sumy with two missiles laced with shrapnel to maximize…
Yes, men need saving
A few weeks ago, when Adolescence first came out, I found myself reading some of the academic literature on incels.…
